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Tracing the Political: Depoliticisation, Governance and the State
Matt (Ed) Flinders
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Description for Tracing the Political: Depoliticisation, Governance and the State
Hardback. Editor(s): Flinders, Matthew; Wood, Matt. Series: New Perspectives in Policy and Politics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JPH; JPP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 532.
Over the past two decades politicians have delegated many political decisions to expert agencies or `quangos’, and portrayed the associated issues, like monetary or drug policy, as technocratic or managerial. At the same time an increasing number of important political decisions are being removed from democratic public debate altogether, leading many commentators to argue that they are part of a `crisis of democracy’, marking the `end of politics’. Tracing the political uses a broad range of international case studies to chart the politicising and depoliticising dynamics that shape debates about the future of governance and the liberal democratic state. The ... Read more
Over the past two decades politicians have delegated many political decisions to expert agencies or `quangos’, and portrayed the associated issues, like monetary or drug policy, as technocratic or managerial. At the same time an increasing number of important political decisions are being removed from democratic public debate altogether, leading many commentators to argue that they are part of a `crisis of democracy’, marking the `end of politics’. Tracing the political uses a broad range of international case studies to chart the politicising and depoliticising dynamics that shape debates about the future of governance and the liberal democratic state. The ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Bristol University Press
Condition
New
Series
New Perspectives in Policy and Politics
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447326601
SKU
V9781447326601
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About Matt (Ed) Flinders
Professor Matthew Flinders is Director of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre for the Public Understanding of Politics at the University of Sheffield. He is also Chair of the UK Political Studies Association and Visiting Distinguished Professor of Governance and Public Policy at Murdoch University. Dr Matt Wood is ESRC Future Research Leaders Fellow at the University of Sheffield ... Read more
Reviews for Tracing the Political: Depoliticisation, Governance and the State
“An excellent group of scholars tackle the complex issue of depoliticisation and leave the reader with still a few puzzles but also a considerable advance in understanding and insight” Professor Gerry Stoker, University of Canberra (Australia) and University of Southampton (UK) "This important edited volume takes one of the most heated debates among contemporary British students of politics and public ... Read more